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In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble — WASHINGTON — No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the “listening room” in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine. By the time the call was over 30 minutes later …
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White House Knew of Whistle-Blower's Allegations Soon After Trump's Call With Ukraine Leader — The whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer detailed to the White House at one point, first expressed his concerns anonymously to the agency's top lawyer. — WASHINGTON — The White House learned …
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Trump Said His Ukraine Envoy Would ‘Go Through Some Things.’ She Has Already. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's words about Marie L. Yovanovitch, his former ambassador to Ukraine, were ominous. In a telephone conversation that has set off a political crisis for Mr. Trump, he told Volodymyr Zelensky …


More than 300 former officials call Trump's actions concerning Ukraine ‘profound national security concern’ — More than 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials have signed a statement warning that President Trump's actions regarding Ukraine are a “profound national security concern” …
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Effort to shield Trump's call with Ukrainian leader was part of broader secrecy effort — The White House has taken extraordinary steps over the past two years to block details of President Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders from becoming public, following embarrassing disclosures early …


These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden's Ukraine story — Former Vice President Joe Biden, now a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, has locked into a specific story about the controversy in Ukraine. — He insists that, in spring 2016, he strong-armed Ukraine to fire …
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Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion
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White House dusts off Mueller playbook as pressure mounts
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Trump's Attack on Whistle-Blower in Private Meeting Was Caught on Video
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Trump at private breakfast: 'Who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that's close to a spy'
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Democrats Show Unity On Impeachment; Republicans Show Fractures
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Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’
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In gambit for Trump, Giuliani engaged parade of Ukrainian prosecutors
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Why The Times Published Details of the Whistle-Blower's Identity
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Ukraine controversy spotlights Joe Biden's family problem as the 2020 race heats up
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A Nonsense QAnon Conspiracy Theory Ended Up In Donald Trump's Call To the Ukrainian President …
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'I'm the real whistleblower': Giuliani's quixotic mission to help Trump in Ukraine
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How the White House and DOJ learned about the whistleblower
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Complaint in Hand, Democrats Aim for a Fast, and Focused, Impeachment Inquiry
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“It's Management Bedlam”: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment — The Republicans mounting primary challenges to __Donald Trump__ are not exactly the Never Trump movement's top draft picks. With little hope of defeating an incumbent president dependably popular inside his party …
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Fox News in ‘management bedlam’ as top brass fights and frets over Trump's future: report
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Pelosi: Attorney General Bill Barr has “gone rogue” — Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday that she believes Attorney General Bill Barr has “gone rogue” with his handling of the controversy regarding the Trump administration's interactions with Ukraine.
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Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr? — Trump's attorney general is implicated in the Ukraine scandal, but refuses to recuse. — By now you have probably read the opening of the whistle-blower complaint filed by a member of the intelligence community accusing Donald Trump of manipulating American foreign policy for political gain.


Barr and Giuliani's Excellent Trump Adventure
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Two Republican governors say they support impeachment inquiry of Trump — For the first time, two Republican governors have publicly supported the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, a new development in an intensifying political fracas that has so far been largely partisan.
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Rep. Max Rose in Hot Seat as Holdout on Trump Impeachment Inquiry
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Phil Scott Is First G.O.P. Governor to Back Impeachment Inquiry
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How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative — Back in March, the Hill newspaper published a series of stories and interviews that seemed, at the time, to be mainly of interest to foreign-policy wonks. — John Solomon, the paper's executive vice president …
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Trump's Defenders Have Plenty of Lame Excuses
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We hear you. You're angry. Here's what we are doing about it. — We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust. — CONNECT — The Des Moines Register staff has heard from hundreds of people in the past few days upset …
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Yes, Trump Is Guilty, but Impeachment Is a Mistake — This political brawl will leave Trump victorious. — Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense on that call with the Ukrainian president. But that doesn't mean Democrats are right to start an impeachment process.
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Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race? — There are very few constants in life, but one thing we can count on these days is the consistency of Trump's approval ratings; they are the most stable in modern history. At his lowest point, the president has never dipped below 35 percent …


Nancy Pelosi: An Extremely Stable Genius —=-=-=- One evening in early September, the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., hosted a debate between Sohrab Ahmari, the op-ed editor of the New York *Post,* and David French, a constitutional lawyer and a staff writer for *National Review* …
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Voter Support for Impeachment Grows Amid Ukraine Scandal — Backing for impeachment increases by 13 net points since the weekend — President Donald Trump pauses during a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25 in New York City.
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Support for impeachment jumps in new poll
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Pence Advised Against Releasing Rough Transcript of Ukraine Call — Vice president raised concerns release would set precedent, but eventually backed Trump decision — MIKE PENCE privately counseled President Trump against releasing the rough transcript of the president's call …
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Everyone In Washington Is Reading the Whistleblower Complaint — Except Senate Republicans
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The Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint looks just like ‘Steele Dossier 2.0’ — An old adage holds that while history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. Not so in the case of the latest manufactured anti-Trump “scandal.” The anonymous whistleblower's allegations of corruption involving President Trump …
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Former CIA official on whistleblower: ‘How could this be an intelligence matter?’
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As Republicans Face Impeachment Dilemma, Romney Is a Lonely Voice of Concern — With most Republicans rushing to defend President Trump against an impeachment push, a “deeply troubled” Mitt Romney stands apart. — WASHINGTON — As House Democrats push forward with an impeachment inquiry …
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Political Wire


Jeff Flake says ‘at least 35’ Republican senators would privately vote to impeach Trump — Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made a bold claim on Thursday when he said “at least 35” GOP senators would privately vote for President Trump's impeachment. — Appearing at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival …
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